Shloka 15

देवादिसृष्टिकथनम् (वसिष्ठशोकः, पराशरजन्म, एकलिङ्गपूजा, रुद्रदर्शनम्)

Devanagari script

स्नुषावाक्यं ततः श्रुत्वा वसिष्ठ उत्थाय भूतलात् संज्ञामवाप्य चालिङ्ग्य सा पपात सुदुःखिता

Transliteration

snuṣāvākyaṃ tataḥ śrutvā vasiṣṭha utthāya bhūtalāt saṃjñāmavāpya cāliṅgya sā papāta suduḥkhitā

Translation

बहू के वचन सुनकर वसिष्ठ भूमि से उठे; चेतना पाकर उन्होंने उसे आलिंगन किया, पर वह घोर शोक से व्याकुल होकर फिर गिर पड़ी।

Word by Word

• स्नुषा-वाक्यम्: the daughter-in-law’s words

• ततः: then/thereupon

• श्रुत्वा: having heard

• वसिष्ठः: Vasiṣṭha (the sage)

• उत्थाय: rising up

• भूतलात्: from the ground

• संज्ञाम्: consciousness/awareness

• अवाप्य: having regained/attained

• च: and

• आलिङ्ग्य: having embraced

• सा: she (the daughter-in-law)

• पपात: fell/collapsed

• सुदुःखिता: deeply grieved/afflicted with great sorrow

Speaker

Suta Goswami (primary narrator) recounting the episode to the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya